Sales Of Assault Weapons Skyrocket Following Sandy Hook Shooting

It turns out that a school massacre is better than any advertising that money can buy. The Hartford Courant reports:

Some gun retailers this week are reporting a spike in store traffic, in excess of the usual holiday rush, in the aftermath of the Newtown murders. Since Friday’s shooting, customers have crammed parking lots and thinned out inventories.

Doug Odishoo, owner of Delta Arsenal in Meriden, said, “As soon as this shooting happened on Friday, I almost sold out of everything. Saturday I couldn’t keep up with it.” He said people walked into his shop, looking at the AR-style guns and saying, “I better get one before I can’t.”

Resurrected talks of gun control, some shop owners said, are pumping up the market for rifles, especially AR, or assault rifles, like the Bushmaster’s civilian version of the military’s AR-15 that Adam Lanza used on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

In Worcester, Mass., at Pullman Arms, co-owner Alicia Merritt called the jump in business “dramatic.” She said she did $30,000 in business on Monday — up from a usual Monday of about $2,000. Most of her sales, she said, were assault rifles, though she said she was also selling a number of handguns. “People want ARs because people are afraid there will be a ban on assault weapons,” Merritt said. Like others, Pullman Arms said it was running low on inventory.

I agree wholeheartedly. But this is a reactionary measure that only exists as a solution because there is an ongoing problem. We shouldn’t need guns at all, but if bad guys have them (this includes our own government) then the good guys should also.

will

Yes having the kids caught in a cross fire sounds much safer.

Opposite Day

The least likely of scenarios. Do you think the children are going to be moving around while a nut job is shooting in the school? No, they are going to be huddled together in a corner somewhere or under a desk or on the floor with their heads facing down. In Israel every school has this system in place, armed personnel are there to protect the children if anyone were to try and pull the same shit that happened at Sandy Hook.

http://www.facebook.com/will.keffer.3 Will Keffer

The least likely of scenarios. Do you think the children are going to be
moving around while a nut job is shooting in the school?…Ever watch the footage of the columbine shooting? 85% of the kids panicked and ran. Also using Israel as an example is a poor choice, the United States is nothing like that Apartheid run strip of sand.

“Big” Richard Johnson

I have to make sure nobody can revoke my MAN CARD!

Because having external genitals apparently isn’t enough to prove I’m a male.

BuzzCoastin

monkey see
monkey do
somethings about herd psychology never change

My name isn’t important

I’m not scared because I have a gun, or maybe, I have a gun because I’m scared?

Dingbert

I just sold my AR for a nice profit. The guy was stocking up on them and already had several.

A gun shop I used to frequent in Roanoke has a picture of Barack Obama and a caption that reads: “Gun salesman of the year.” Ain’t that the truth?

ben_b

AR-15 = civilian version of the m16. AR stands for ArmaLite Rifle after the company that designed it, not assault rifle. The Ar 15 is not an assault rifle, the governments m16 is.